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    Challenges→Thought experiments can teach us something new about the world without new empirical data.

    Thought experiments draw exclusively on concepts and intuitions derived from prior empirical experience.

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    • 1.All concepts we manipulate in thought experiments originate from sensory encounters or their combinations.
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    • 2.We cannot coherently imagine scenarios violating the causal structures we've repeatedly observed empirically.
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    • 3.Even abstract thought experiments rely on intuitions shaped by embodied experience in physical environments.
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    • 1.Mathematical thought experiments generate novel truths not derivable from any prior empirical experience alone.
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    • 2.We routinely imagine logically possible scenarios (like inverted qualia) that contradict our actual empirical observations.
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    • 3.A priori conceptual analysis reveals constraints independent of how the world actually is empirically structured.
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